Resistance is futile!
Do you remember Eerie Indiana? Do you? With the kids being preserved in tubberware lunchboxes? And the ability to understand the canine plot to take over the world cause of dental-ware?...
29 July 2006
That was not a banana Dougal
Test the nation was on last night[1] See RTE have been running a series of shows over the past week marking how Ireland has changed since 1986. Obviously the reason they...
6 June 2006
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
The carriage gave another lurch, and Maria Merryweather, Miss Heliotrope, and Wiggins once more fell into each other’s arms, sighed, gasped, righted themselves, and fixed their attention upon those objects which were for each of them at this trying moment the source of courage and strength.
I picked this book up on a total whim, I have the vaguest recollections of a tv series by the same name, which may or may not have existed. But if it did I think I found it boring. Still I’m a horse fan. It was cheap, and short. I gave in.
10 May 2006
Dream, and don’t be afraid the dream’s not real
Isn’t nostalgia fucking great? I can remember, way back in 1987 when I was 8, coming home from school on the bus, singing Hold Me Now. Belting it out, like it...
13 March 2006
The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
ISBN: 0140316884 5 Vol.s in one Over Sea, Under Stone The Dark Is Rising Greenwitch The Grey King Silver On The Tree “Where is he?” Barney hopped from one foot to...
18 February 2006
Robin of Sherwood dir. by Richard Carpenter
I don’t know if I actually remember this from when it was originally shown on RTE, or if it was repeats. Then again, the last series, the third, was made in...
22 July 2004
College work
Well it is the end of another day in which I got no work done. Okay I did manage to make it to the library and read a couple of articles...
17 November 2003
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